Sunday, May 2, 2010

Desert

Added flying rocks to the desert area. I don't want to put cactuses in this area because the Saguaro cactuses depicted in the original game are a stereotype of american western deserts and shouldn't be in a desert like this. This is a personal protest against incorrect facts. In Banjo-Kazooie the desert level had the wrong type of cactus for an egyptian desert. They obviously did no research or even bothered to google a picture of what a real desert looks like.

Get over yourself. Fictional fantasy doesn't need to follow real-world geography in a by-the-book matter. If you're going to pitch a fit over desert authenticity, you might as well get your panties in a twist over discrepancies in their use in Grecian architecture.

Zelda II's Hyrule has pig-men, 9-foot-tall evil knights with horse heads, swards that shoot beams , but only when it's user is in perfect health, and palaces that only appear when you play a song on a special flute. But your suspension of disbelief hits a wall at cactuses in a desert.

Hyrule has Saguaro-type cactuses. Period. It's not up to you to define the ecology of someone else's fantasy world.